At least 45 people have been killed by a bomb explosion in the Pakistani city of Karachi, police say.

Chadian soldiers in Mali have killed Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the al-Qaeda commander behind a bloody mass hostage-taking at an Algerian gas plant earlier this year, Chad’s military has said.

The government of Bangladesh has deployed troops in the north of the country as six more people were killed in fresh clashes over the conviction of an Islamist party leader for war crimes in the Muslim-majority nation.

Rejecting growing hijabophobia in Lagos schools, a leading Islamic organization has planned a protest at governor’s office, urging him to end victimization against Muslim pupils as an infringement on the constitutional rights of pupils.

Fresh clashes have resulted in more deaths in Bangladesh during violence in response to the death sentence handed to an opposition leader.

JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman late Friday said that formation of an authoritative grand tribal “Jirga” has passed a message to world community that serious peace initiatives has got underway for bringing durable peace in FATA and KP by holding talks with the militant leadership.

Nine years ago he was sentenced to 16 years in jail for kidnapping three United Nations workers in Afghanistan.

A bomb attack on a bus transporting Afghan military personnel in the capital, Kabul, has injured seven people, including the attacker.

Seventeen Afghan police officers have been killed in an attack carried out by the Taliban militants on a police station in the eastern province of Ghazni, Press TV reports.

France’s defence minister has said that French troops are involved in “very violent fighting” in the mountains of northern Mali and that it is too early to talk about a quick pullout from the West African country, despite the growing cost of the intervention.